Example sentences of "am [v-ing] you [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am expecting you to do the same . ’ |
| 2 | Sensing some anxiety on my part about your reaction to the work I am asking you to do , you tell me . |
| 3 | ‘ Because what I am asking you to do is become the paid companion to la Principessa . ’ |
| 4 | I am asking you to take up the privilege . |
| 5 | I say real progress has been made but today I am asking you to think about the next step a step that I am sure we all feel is at the heart of the matter a transforming step perhaps the critical step that will guarantee ultimate success in fulfilling god 's loving will for his church . |
| 6 | Therefore I am asking you to advise every man who comes without being passed by you that he will not be allowed to return home , and , in truth , I shall take his boat from him and lay himself fast . |
| 7 | This month is different because I am asking you to help other people . |
| 8 | " I am asking you to keep it to yourself . " |
| 9 | So I am asking you to stay on in Rome until her recovery is complete . ’ |
| 10 | Or failing the gift of a sum in cash , I am asking you to make it a business transaction , to buy what you clearly must need and what we can no longer afford to keep . |
| 11 | In these last days of the programme I am asking you to stretch your body even further than before . |
| 12 | ‘ I am asking you to walk on it further . |
| 13 | I am inviting you to consider some of the steps which have been developed to promote the level and quantity of language skills which are needed to sustain and develop the social infrastructure in relation to the public services in a multi-lingual Britain . |
| 14 | ‘ I am telling you to shut up ! ’ the Trunchbull roared . |